back-ganging
English
Alternative forms
- back-gangin, back-gannin
Etymology
From back + ganging (“going”).
Noun
back-ganging (uncountable)
- (Britain dialectal) A going back; a returning; the way back.
- (Britain dialectal) A retrograde, especially in health, circumstances, or conditions; a relapse.
Adjective
back-ganging (comparative more back-ganging, superlative most back-ganging)
- (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears.
- 1836, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels: Redgauntlet:
- I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday book―I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants.
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- (Britain dialectal, of persons or animals) Not thriving; not prosperous.
See also
- backgain